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An explicit high-order noncanonical symplectic algorithm for ideal two-fluid systems is developed. The fluid is discretized as particles in the Lagrangian description, while the electromagnetic fields and internal energy are treated as…

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I present results from the first global hydrodynamical simulations of the elliptical instability in a tidally deformed gaseous planet (or star) with a free surface. The elliptical instability is potentially important for tidal evolution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Adrian J. Barker

The motion of noncircular two-dimensional vortices is shown to depend on a form of coupling between vortex ellipticity and the gradient of fluid density. The approach is based on the perspective that an elliptic vortex can be described as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jasmine M. Andersen , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens , Mark T. Lusk

Thin viscous Keplerian accretion disks are considered asymptotically stable, even though they can show significant dynamic activity on short timescales. In this paper the dynamics of non-axisymmetric hydrodynamical disturbances of disks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Paola Rebusco , Orkan M. Umurhan , Wlodek Kluzniak , Oded Regev

The evolution of piecewise constant distributions of a conserved quantity related to the frozen-in canonical vorticity in effectively two-dimensional incompressible ideal EMHD flows is analytically investigated by the Hamiltonian method.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Ruban , S. L. Senchenko

The nonlinear dynamics of axisymmetric, as well as helical, frozen-in vortex structures is investigated by the Hamiltonian method in the framework of ideal incompressible electron magnetohydrodynamics. For description of current-sheet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. P. Ruban

Using hydrodynamic approach, it is shown that the properties of a marginally stable collisionless stellar disc resemble those of a thermodynamic system undergoing a gas--liquid phase transition. The maximum in Toomre's stability diagram,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-04 E. I. Ivannikova , M. N. Maksumov

A Hamiltonian reduction approach is defined, studied, and finally used to derive asymptotic models of internal wave propagation in density stratified fluids in two-dimensional domains. Beginning with the general Hamiltonian formalism of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni , T. T. Vu Ho

Using the anelastic approximation of linearised hydrodynamic equations, we investigate the development of axially symmetric small perturbations in thin Keplerian discs. The sixth-order dispersion equation is derived and numerically solved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-02 N. Shakura , K. Postnov

In order to be in a long-lived configuration, the density in a fluid disk should be constant along streamlines to prevent compressional (PdV) work from being done cyclically around every orbit. In a pure Kepler potential, flow along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. S. Statler

In many astrophysical problems involving discs (gaseous or particulate) orbiting a dominant central mass, gravitational potential of the disc plays an important dynamical role. Its impact on the motion of external objects, as well as on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Antranik A. Sefilian , Roman R. Rafikov

Recent SPH simulations by Martin et al. (2014) suggest a circumstellar gaseous disk may exhibit coherent eccentricity-inclination oscillations due to the tidal forcing of an inclined binary companion, in a manner that resembles Lidov-Kozai…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

The problem of linear instability of a nonlinear traveling wave in a canonical Hamiltonian system with translational symmetry subject to superharmonic perturbations is discussed. It is shown that exchange of stability occurs when energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-09 N. Sato , M. Yamada

Hamiltonian particle systems may exhibit non-linear hydrodynamic phenomena as the time evolution of the density fields of energy, momentum, and mass. In this Letter, an exact equation describing the time evolution is derived assuming the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-18 Shin-ichi Sasa

Orbital evolution of binary systems in dense stellar clusters is important in a variety of contexts: origin of blue stragglers, progenitors of compact object mergers, millisecond pulsars, and so on. Here we consider the general problem of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Chris Hamilton , Roman R. Rafikov

In this paper we present an analytical and numerical study of the response of a circumbinary disc subject to the tidal-forcing of a binary with a fixed circular orbit. We consider fluid discs with a range of thicknesses and binaries with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John D. Larwood , John C. B. Papaloizou

Modelling the gravitational interaction between an eccentric perturber and a differentially shearing gas disc is a longstanding problem with various astrophysical applications, ranging from the evolution of planetary systems to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Callum W. Fairbairn , Alexander J. Dittmann

In this work we study the so-called ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics, which is a novel model designed to preserve duality rotations and conformal transformations, such as the Maxwell's equations do. This model allows to study diverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 C. A. Escobar , Román Linares , B. Tlatelpa-Mascote

Eulerian hydrodynamical simulations are a powerful and popular tool for modeling fluids in astrophysical systems. In this work, we critically examine recent claims that these methods violate Galilean invariance of the Euler equations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Tom Abel , Douglas H. Rudd

An explicit expression in terms of canonical variables is obtained for the Hamiltonian functional determining the fully nonlinear dynamics of two-dimensional potential flows of an ideal fluid with a free surface over an arbitrary nonuniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. P. Ruban